Ultimate Arctic Crossing - part 2

Wednesday March 13 - DAY 17 / They have just experienced the hardest day of their first 17 days. "I said to Dixie," Alain explained, "that this time we had got to the real Arctic." The ice and the sliding were worse than ever; the men were obliged to advance almost on the tips of their shoes and crampons all the time, labouring like tormented beasts of burden, in order to achieve any kind of forward movement with their sledges. Without which, nothing moved...